What a day!

It was supposed to be a happy July 4th but we woke early ready to start a busy day and instead the day turned into a much busier and somewhat emotional (for me anyways) day before 9am.

We had made plans to help my father-in-law walk a neighbors dogs and then we'd run a few errands before we had to meet up with our friend Mark and his girlfriend who are in town from Los Angeles. Then we'd relax a bit and enjoy the rest of the weekend. WRONG! We went into the basement to get a clothing rack we were returning to my father-in-law and we discovered half of the basement was kinda flooded.

First we thought it was a broken sump pump but realized it didn't rain recently. As my husband went through a few more thoughts my mind went to the water heater as the previous owner was obsessed about teaching us to keep any eye out of a leaky water heater. We had my father in law come over to help us instead.

After a few hours of moving boxes out of the way and emptying wet boxes that half of the basement doesn't look half bad. We're still waiting for a plumber to come out and replace the water heater but it just wasn't the right weekend for this drama.


The side of the small flood all cleaned up but we still have the hose attached from when we drained the water heater into the sump pump well.